Eliot Marshall And Shannon Gugerty Released By The UFC

Following the UFC’s first Versus event two fighters on the card, Eliot Marshall and Shannon Gugerty, have been released by the promotion.

Eliot Marshall’s dismissal comes as somewhat of a surprise considering the former TUF 8 fighter was on a three fight win-streak up in the UFC up until his decision loss to Vladimir Matyushenko on Sunday night.

With his overall record remaining in good shape at 8-2, it seems that Marshall has a reason to feel hard done-by in this instance. Despite that the light-heavyweight vowed to MMAJunkie.com that he would be back in the UFC as soon as possible by winning fights in smaller promotions.

Meanwhile Shannon Gugerty’s contract being terminated is a less surprising decision. His loss to Clay Guida took his UFC record to 2-3, and having now lost his last two fights Gugerty would surely have been bracing himself for bad news after the event.

The 29 year-old fighter walks away from the promotion with a career record of 12-5.

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